Criminal Law

Stupid is as stupid does when it comes to crime
While perusing police reports and court documents this month, I noticed that there were an exorbitant number of cases that involved ? for lack of a better word - stupid criminals. Perhaps the economy or maybe even the summer sun...

"Stupid Nerds" and School Shootings:
Forensic psychologist and blogger Helen Smith comments on my post on the travails of "stupid nerds," and suggests that stupid nerds oppressed by the high school social hierarchy might...

How stupid are we
I don’t know what’s worse: That people saw terrorist undertones in this picture or that Dunkin Donuts yanked it. Image: Dunkin Donuts/L.A. Times Tags: rachael+ray, dunkin+donutsSHARETHIS...

"Bring it, @#$!^"
That's what a Sheboygan man -- Andrew S. Dubra -- allegedly told a police officer who approached him. This is a pretty stupid thing to do. It is profoundly stupid when you happen to have (A) cocaine in your wallet...

Thank heavens for stupid criminals ...
A Washington man called police to complain after he'd been booted from the local bowling alley. Which was a stupid thing to do since he was wanted on an attempted-murder warrant.

Thank god they're so fucking stupid...
How many times do we hear about stupid kiddy porn lovers who get busted because they leave their sick, illegal crap on their computers when they take them in to get worked on? Yeah, well 57-year-old Peter Macdonald is now...

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